Hi guys,
First i used to handwrite my own batch scripts...then moved on to Kim'
BatchMaker,although i had to hand correct/add some features ,like diferent
settings for diferent machines capabilities,matte passes for the weakest
machine, etc..
So i ended up having several scripts based on the KA BatchMaker's generated
one...and it worked very nicely for a long time...
Because i have just 2 machines for render,i didn't feel the need for a full
render manager.
I discovered Thinkbox Deadline a while ago,and it's my workhorse managing
renderings nowadays..
It's "free" if you have 2 render machines,and it works very well with softimage
and other vendors,it has an addon the allows you to submit your renders from
inside softimage,remote acess to manage your renders,assigns passes to specific
machines,creates dependencies,like this pass renders before that
one...etc..etc...i mean it's really nice and EASY to set up.
If you have a small shop,i have a go and try it..
later,
Rui
www.ruisantos3d.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen Davidson
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 6:15 AM
Subject: Re: Make a pass non-renderable?
That is lame. Other than that, how do you like Rebus for rendering?
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Byron Nash <byronn...@gmail.com> wrote:
I put in a feature request at REBUS to enable and they just said to delete
the passes. That's a lame response. I am sure their system is sending those
batch commands somewhere along the way. They just need to open it up just
enough to let someone add those pass flags. I do use those a lot in the command
line locally.
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Chris Chia <chris.c...@autodesk.com> wrote:
1 advice:
I would customised the render farm to take in the -pass flag from your
submission page (add an input box or something to grab user's inputs) and pass
the following command (if input box is not empty) to render farm.
xsibatch -render myscene.scn -pass mypassName
Else if no input:
xsibatch -render myscene.scn
Chris
On 20 Jul, 2012, at 3:30 AM, "Byron Nash"
<byronn...@gmail.com<mailto:byronn...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I am using REBUS render farm and it seems to be pretty quick and
economical. It only seems to render the whole scene however. Is there an easy
way to make passes not render when you hit render all? I assume that's sort of
what this farm is doing.
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Stephen P. Davidson
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sdavid...@3danimationmagic.com
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